DEVIN NUNES/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department on Monday [6-25-18] told the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee that it had complied with his requests to the extent legally permissible, pushing back against his Monday evening deadline for more documents related to the FBI’s investigation of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. In a letter to Rep. Devin Nunes, a California Republican, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote that the department’s efforts to accommodate the committee’s demands while protecting ongoing investigations were ‘consistent with the law…’ The letter came ahead of a 5 p.m. Monday deadline that Mr. Nunes, a California Republican, set for the Justice Department to turn over information pertaining to the early stages of the FBI’s Russia investigation, including the bureau’s use of confidential informants. A spokesman for Mr. Nunes didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The episode marked the latest turn in a long-brewing standoff between Justice Department officials and Mr. Trump’s Republican allies in Congress, led by Mr. Nunes, who have been demanding increasingly sensitive information about the FBI’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible collusion on the part of Trump campaign associates.”
-Rebecca Ballhaus and Sadie Gurman, “Justice Department Tells Devin Nunes It Complied With His Requests on FBI Probe,” The Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2018 10:07 pm